Tuesday, 18 July 2017

Time and time.

Even in the darkest moments.

I was listening to some of my favourite music from the far and distant past. One that struck me for some reason was the one about for everything there is a season. it was based on a well known biblical quotation but it was well done and very simple.

It got me thinking as I wandered round the golf course on my own. Might I add I was on my own by choice. I really just wanted no pressure and to have a few good shots.

Halfway round the course there is a notice that informs you that if you are playing to time it should take one hour and fifty minutes to each that point. I was well on schedule.

Time! Do we ever give enough thought to it?

To realise the value of ten years:

Ask a cancer survivor, and their spouse, and their kids and grand-kids.

To realise the value of four years:

Ask a smiling college graduate with their new degree. Or look at pictures of somebody on graduation day.

To realise the value of one year:

Ask the parents of a baby on his/her first birthday. How fast it has gone.

To realise the value of one week:

Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realise the value of one day:

Ask a man / woman who has been sober for a first day after years of addiction.

To realise the value of one minute:

Ask the father who got the last seat on the plane to make it to watch his child play a part in the school play.

To realise the value of one-second:

Ask the pilot who ejected just before the plane crashed.

Time waits for nobody. Seize the moment and spend it with somebody precious.

About Me

Ralph now resides in the Fife village of Freuchie, a short distance from the Forth Rail and Road Bridges, and from his birthplace of Rosyth.
Ralph settled in Fife in 2006, after some 40 years of residence in different places around Scotland, where he worked as a minister of religion and then as a teacher. He now paints as a vocation, and is inspired by the beauty of his surroundings - natural and structural.
Ralph's artwork is a vibrant and eclectic mix of Landscape Paintings, Seascape Paintings, Abstract Paintings, Still Life Paintings, People Portraits and Animal Portraits. His favoured medium is acrylic. He also uses pastel. This variety ensures that Ralph's work is alway fresh and original.
Ralph has never been to art-school and has not received professional training. His work is organic and comes from his heart. He has a unique and insightful appreciation of his locale. All this makes his work feel familiar yet stirring to the viewer.